. >> reporter: jewelry maker beth wicker is still recovering from the stroke she suffered last april,ut she has not recovered from what came next... >> my cell phone rang. >> reporter: ...while still in the hospital, beth was told her health insurance policy-- which was supposed to be paying the bills-- was a fake. you're on your hospital bed? >> correct. >> reporter: and they're telling you what? >> the insurance i thought i had doesn't exist. so we've got the stroke, now we've lost the insurance that was supposed to help cover the stroke. so what's going to happen now? >> we wanted them to know they were in a bad deal. >> reporter: beth was notified by the office of scott richardson, the top insurance regulator in south carolina which this year became one of 28 states to shut down one of the biggest consumer frauds ever uncovered. officials are still counting the victims, but tens of thousands of people lost tens of millions of dollars buying what they thought was legitimate health insurance. >> they make it look very official. >> reporter: one of the largest scams involved an offic

it happened to the yellow bungalow in the suburbs where beth anne mackie and her family lived for sevenrs. >> it was a grieving process that was a lengthy one and still continues. >> reporter: america's foreclosure crisis is spreading far from the states like florida and california where it began. in the seattle area, foreclosures are up 71% this year. >> the foreclosure numbers in seattle continue to rise month after month, even in our peak selling seasons which here can be spring and fall. >> reporter: now there's more evidence for just how blatantly the paperwork for the flood of foreclosures has been mishandled. consider this-- legal documents used to seize homes that don't even identify the lender claiming to hold the mortgage. instead, the words "bogus assignee" fill the space where the lender's name should be. in foreclosure after foreclosure the lender's address is listed only as "xs." in some cases the document identifies the lender as bad bene. >> they have foreclosed in the name of bad bene. >> reporter: attorney robert hager who represents homeowners fighting foreclosure, sa

beth, what do you know? >> reporter: laura, there is a bit of mystery surrounding all of this and there are no arrests. authorities say that the shooter was in uniform and a spokeswoman said the employees who witnessed what happened didn't recognize the individual. if you live in the district, this is where your trash trucks come from. the workday hasn't even started yet out here when the shots rang out around 6 this morning. his name was larry hutchins. people called him uncle larry. they describe him as a low -- well-liked low-key guy who was devoted to his work collecting garbage at dpw. >> i can't express larry. -- [ indiscernible ] >> he was there since high school. >> reporter: hutchins, who had -- [ indiscernible ] maryland was at the w street lot before collection trucks rolled out at 6:45. multiple shots were fired. and -- >> reporter: rough know -- hutchins was killinged and another employee injured. >> very rarely do you come before the public to talk about a government employee who has been shot

beth parker, fox 5 news. allecing about today when it touched 80 degrees on my car thermometer is may be this bodes well for not having blizzards. >> that is true. last year, i believe, it was 68 and all the storms were coming up the coast and we would say often this is not a good time. and more of a sign of la ninauenter and we were officially 88 degrees and what is amazing, had we hit 90, not only would we have hit a record for the day, it would have been -- the 68th time this year we hit 90 and that would have made it the most number of 90 degrees days and a slight storm risk. warm again on tuesday and we're expecting a shower or thunderstorm tomorrow and anything tonight is hit-or- miss, too and big changes on thursday and that will be cooler, a lot of rain and a good soaking and that, in fact, will be a coastal storm and had a lot last year. there is a slight risk of showers and thunderstorms to the north and that did include d.c. awhile ago but the storm pyrotechnic center slowed it north and they think

beth parker, fox 5 news. >>> experts say building a new dam would be an enormous expense. the chairwoman of the county board of supervisors promises that residents will be included in future discussions. >>>ky feel my arteries clogging up. >> yeah, a cookoff like no other. the question is who walked away with the best spam dish. >> ew. >> that is coming up next. ring ring. . progresso. oh yes hi. can you put my grandma on the phone please? thanks. excuse me a sec. another person calling for her grandmother. she thinks it's her soup huh? i'm told she's in the garden picking herbs. she is so cute. okay i'll hold. she's holding. wha? (announcer) progresso. you gotta taste this soup. so, you can eat them right here... or eat green giant beans at home... ...frozen within 8 hours to lock in nutrients. up to you. [ green giant ] ho ho ho ♪ green giant. >> time is effort to -- china's effort to put a man on the moon is moving forward. it's designed to activity out technology so china can send an unmanned mission to mars in 2012. and mod -- the next two years and china is stepp

it happened to the yellow bungalow in the suburbs, where beth ann mackey and her family lived for sevenrs. >> it was a grieving process that was a lengthy one and still continues. >> reporter: america's foreclosure crisis is spreading far from the states like florida and california, where it began. in the seattle area, foreclosures are up 71% this year. >> the foreclosure numbers in seattle continue to rise, months after month, even in our peak selling seasons, which here are spring and fall. >> reporter: now, more evidence how blatantly for the flood of foreclosu foreclosures has been mishandled, consider this legal documents used to seize homes that don't even identify the lender claiming to hold the mortgage. instead, the words, bogus assignee fill the space where the lender's name should be, in foreclosure after foreclosure, the lender's address is listed only as xs in some cases the documents identify the lender as bad bene. >> they have foreclosed in the name of bad bene, for bad beneficiary. >> reporter: attorney robert hager who represents homeowners fighting foreclosure says th

come on down, beth. ♪ beth >> jimmy: hopefully this will be $100.a ] no, that is -- no. that is condensed milk. that is not -- oh! that is not $100. that is condensed milk. nice try. what are you feeling? audience, help him out, please. [ shouting ] >> number two. >> jimmy: going to go for number two, the mighty deuce. jennifer, come on down! ♪ jennifer >> jimmy: hopefully -- jennifer will hopefully you have the $100 prize in that bucket. jennifer, pour that bucket over my man's head. [ drum roll ] ♪ you won! that's it! $100. jennifer, thank you. come on over. you won the money! congratulations! [ cheers and applause ] it's very slippery. congratulations, $100. what are you going to do with the money? >> going to go to disney world. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, my god! fantastic! nobody goes home empty handed here on "late night." so you get this "late night with jimmy fallon" bucket hat. there you go, buddy. >> thank you. >> jimmy: thank you so much. [ cheers and applause ] we'll be right back, everybody, with alan cumming. come on back! ♪ ♪ everythi

i'm beth parker. i will tell you how this little device could save a life. ceus ' ceus  . >>> 60 miles in the hope that the world will get closer to a cure for breast cancer, that is the motivation behind a three- day walk all over the country including right here in washington, d.c. rod slater shows us what this walk means both for the women and the scientists who are trying to beat the disease. [ applause ] >> reporter: 2,000 strong the so-called pink warriors doing the victory lap after walking 60 miles over three days to raise money for and awareness of breast cancer. >> although burdened with the diagnosis, they refused to be defined by a disease. >> reporter: and in their midst, a couple hundred survivors who walked the whole way. >> i always said that if i stopped then my goal to end breast cancer, and i don't want to see any other woman, that includes you, to ever go through what i had to go through. >> reporter: for some of the walkers, the reality is fresh and p

in newark, dell dem beth parker, fox 5 news. -- delaware, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> i know a lot ofple hate the rain. i know we need it, good for the plans, good for the farmers, but the grocery checker today said you tell gwen i love the rain. it puts me in a good mood. good for him. he should go to seattle. >> some people do like rain, you know. it's a nice change-of-pace, but i'm kind of ready to have a little sunshine back. i think because we've had a couple days of excessive rainfall people are getting a little tired of it. today we started off pretty nice. it wasn't too bad and then the rain gradually moved its way in as we had predicted it would and doesn't look like it's going to be going anywhere any time soon. for that person in the grocery store you'll get to enjoy a bit more of the rainfall. we've got a few unsettled days ahead of us, but you know what? it's not all bad. cool days and nights ahead, too. we'll see a real big difference in temperatures. we'll have a pretty big drop and seasonal temperatures moving through late week and sunshine in the forecast ahead. we'll

beth? >> reporter: remember all that snow that started falling back in december? well, fast forward to now. a lot of those people who were bored around the house ended up with one of these. i'm beth parker. meet those blizzard babies coming up. bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay for them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that's not a budget. and bob ehrlich's not the kind of leader... we can trust. >>> this is fox 5 news at 5:00. >>> that chill outside is a reminder winter is right around the corner, but flashback to last year's blizzards. nine months later many families are getting a big reminder. fox 5's beth parker shows us those reminders are arriving daily at hospitals all over our area. >> reporter: i remember what i was doing last winter. a lot of us here at

in anne arundel county, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> how impressive is that. once the tapestry is complete they hope it will be displayed somewhere in annapolis but there are no firm plans yet i'm sure something will go on the calendar for that. >> i'm sure they will find a place to display it. >> not necessarily a beautiful start to the workweek. it was chilly this morning. >> chilly today. high of 57 degrees with the clouds and showers out there. listen, you see a little bit of sun trying to peek through. just a little bit. it looks like if you are sick of one day of gray skies the sun should come back for a little bit. not talking crystal clear skies or anything like that but a little sunshine in there tomorrow. maybe a little bit on wednesday, as well. toward the end of the week looks like a lot of sunshine, drier and warmer, too. look at the numbers now, 56 degrees here and 55 in, excuse me, it dropped off a little bit. dulles 54. national was 57 for a high today. color was only up to 54 degrees. cool and basically chilly across the area today. tonight, n

beth parker, fox 5 news. >> beautiful. the women are doing this simply because they want to. set plan on whether that tappestery will be publicly displayed when they are finished but they are certainly hoping that it will be. >>> former president jimmy carter is out of the hospital and he is back in washington and back to work building homes with habitat for humanity. he is a long-time volunteer. yesterday, he helped build a home for a single mother in the district. in the driving rain, former president jimmy carter and wife rosalyn drive nails into boards that will one day be home to a single mother. >> he gave me a huck and i told him thank you so much for helping out on the house. >> reporter: there was no sign of the stomach trouble that put him in the hospital last week. >> god has blessed me in many ways and one those has been good health so far. >> reporter: this is the 27th year president carter and the first lady have strapped on work bell an stepped in with other volunteers to build or rehab homes for families who otherwise might not be able to achieve the american

. >> mary beth blazer is on whether to three young children. her father and uncle died from breast cancer, and she had resisted genetic testing until her sister was diagnosed. >> the surgeon said we need a test. if you have siblings, they really should be tested. >> the director of the breast center at mercy suggests testing for anyone with a strong family history. >> 80 or 85% of women with breast cancer do not have a family history. they are not off the hook. >> what about the controversy over mammograms? >> it is really how many women do you need to see? there is a 14% mortality reduction. that is enough for most of us. everything else is an economic argument. >> mary beth pasted -- tested positive. she had a hysterectomy just five weeks ago. she did it for her children. >> it is a big relief. i reduce my risk by 95%. there is nothing more i could've done. >> five weeks ago? you look like you are doing great. >> i was driving at two weeks, and back to my mommy things with my three young kids. >> the doctor joins us with more information. we

in alexandria, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> we have a lot more for you.r top stories and your morning commute and your forecast. we'll be right frce ttge r am

i'm beth parker. i'll tell you what it means to the neighbors. >> i'll tell what you today's forecast means for you. pleasant conditions across the region. we'll take a look at that. julie wright will be here to tell us what is happening on the roads this morning. a lot going on. fox 5 morning news will be right back. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] it starts with you falling in love with the most personalized most customized piece of furniture you will ever own. ♪ ♪ get that one piece right and the rest of the room will just fall into place. it starts with you introducing yourself to the world of ethan allen. see your ethan allen design center today for two beautiful ways to save. >>> children in southeast washington can now play on their dream playground. more than # hundred volunteers helped to build. it is based on drawings from area children. >> i think kids are kind of the best people to kind of help desane a playground. they have limitless imagination. they come up with a great designed and it is thei

mary beth is a mother to three young children. her father died from male breast cancer and so did her uncle. she resisted the idea of genetic testing until her sister was diagnosed with breast cancer this month. >> her surgeon said she needed the genetic testing because they were deciding between a mastectomy and a lumpectomy. >> he suggests a genetic testing for anyone. >> 85% of all women do not have a family history. one of the problems is if we have a bad family energy coming think you are off the hook you absolutely are not. >> what about the recent controversy about the effectiveness of mammograms? >> how many women do you need to see to save a life? there's a 14% mortality reduction which is enough for most people. everything else is an economic argument. >> and mary beth tested positive for the genetic testing. she had a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy just five weeks ago. >> is a big relief. i reduced my risk by 95%. there was nothing i could have done any more than i already have done. >> five weeks ago? you look li

in maryland, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> incredible idea. for more information on the sensor or technology at the university of maryland, visit our website, www.myfoxdc.com. >>> new security could be coming to the jefferson memorial. the national capitol planning commission discussed signs around it. they include installing a vehicle barrier and a wall built around the perimeter of the memorial. >>> i did some digging outside. it was amazing, i love dieings like this and getting cool, not too hot or cold yet. >> yeah. >> and you like bring it on. gary mcgrady s it continuing like this the rest of the evening? >> yeah. >> reporter: the temperatures will tend to drop fairly quickly because we have a dry atmosphere. the relative humidities is very, very low and that will allow the temperature to drop off quickly once the sun sets and it's been breezy. that will calm down. the evening, pretty good out there and isn't this great? 675 for d.c. i'm sorry, i'm editorializing there. some people may not like this, i don't know. gaithersburg, 73; 73 fo

beth parker takes us to a lab where they are working to battle the bug and protecting the economy in will see only here on fox. >> reporter: long before this guy, the brown stinkbug invaded your house, he was already on the radar screen of folks here at a usda lab in newark, delaware. >> i'm kim homer. >> the live lie hood famers could hang in the balance. people like bob black in maryland. >> they suck the juice out of the cells so that dries up and ends to be a spot there. >> reporter: the solution may be 7,000 miles away. >> this part of china between beijing and shanghai along the east coast, all of south korea and central japan. >> reporter: this particular stinkbug with the striped antenna is a native of asia. it arrived in the u.s. accidentally in the mid 1990s probably in a cargo container. >> here we have various cages that we are using to maintain our brown stinkbug colony all year long. >> reporter: it has no enemies and the population is growing dramatically. >> for rents we do for the fully understand, there were a lot more of them this year than they were previously. we

in fairfax county, beth parker, fox5 news. >> building a new dam would be an enormous expense. the chairwoman of the fairfax county board of supervisors promises residents will be included in future discussions. >>> one canine has a tail to tell. how bandit made a great escape and six months later made the journey back to his family. >>> a discovery in a home where residents were recently evicted. details at the top of the news edge. two governors, two different approaches. even in good times bob ehrlich didn't make education a priority. he increased college tuition by 40%, cut school construction by $200 million, and ehrlich voted to eliminate the department of education while serving in congress. but in the toughest of times, martin o'malley has made record investments in public schools, new school construction, and o'malley froze college tuition four years in a row. with martin o'malley, our children always come first. to me a great fashion story is about taking what's out there and making it work for my readers. at the magazine, i'm all about helping them get the looks for

fox 5's beth parker reports. >> reporter: dig deem, commuters. yes, you've already -- deep, commuters. yes, you've already been dealing with billions of dollars of construction in tysons corner. >> this week is a different kind of time. >> reporter: different because drivers will be inconvenienced even more. >> it's a necessary evil i think. >> reporter: yes, inconvenience in the name of progress. as crews pound away at two huge projects. these pillars will one day carry rail traffic to dulles airport, the other big project, h.o.t. lanes on the beltway between tysons and springfield want. >> perhaps no area in the -- springfield. >> perhaps no area in the whole nation has so much in terms of construction dollars being spent on improvements in one area. >> reporter: starting tuesday night after rush hour crews will be adding traffic lights on 123 and closing a beltway entrance ramp. that brown suv is taking a ramp that will no longer be available. you can see as they head up there that's the ramp at 123 for 495 north. instead once that ramp closes

in anne arundel beth parker, fox 5 news. >>> gary mcgrady, my 5-year-old asked me this morning if it was winter. >> grabbing for the sweaters, didn't we, and long pants. >> i didn't spend a lot of time outside, but going out briefly for a dinner break, it was chilly out there and i think that's the trend, especially right now. you might be shocked when you walk out to get in your car because temperatures are dropping to the 40s already out into the suburbs, still a little warmer here in town. we have mostly cloudy skies and i think tonight if the skies were to clear -- they won't -- but if they were to clear, we would have widespread 30s out there. we're under an unusually cool air mass as shawn's son pointed out. it's almost like winter out there or at least feels like it relative to the warmth we've had lately. in temperatures out there tonight you can see here have already fallen down into the 40s. manassas 48, culpeper 46, the same for gaithersburg there. here in town we're still in the lower 50s. we didn't warm up much today, so we're not cooling off much off the highs right now

beth parker, fox 5 news. >>> new security could be coming to the jefferson memorial. the planning commission discussed concept designs today. there are three different proposals. all have the same idea. install a vehicle barrier to protect and a wall around the perimeter. >>> more barriers and walls around our monuments. seems like the way things are going. from what otherwise would be a fall week. >> and i didn't mind this fall stuff either. it's nice to change it up. for people who aren't ready to let go of what we don't get around here much which are moderate temperatures with sunshine without being in a drought. all systems are go in the weather department and make your plans accordingly. this is going to be a fantastic weekend. and a great weekend to get out and maybe do leaf peeping. tomorrow will be beautiful. a spectacular friday for us. 75 degrees. plenty of great, blue skies. saturday 87, some areas pushing 80. monday is columbus day. a lot of you will have it off and it couldn't be a better weekend for you. it will be cooler outside the beltway. but watch f

as expert beth holders know, it's a trick your body plays on the mind. synchronized swimmers know this. you can go longer without breathing than you think. with practice, almost anyone can hold their breathe for two or three minutes. experts go seven minutes. seven minutes without a breath. think about that. only if the oxygen gets to the brain. either pumped by the heart or chest compressions. in most cases, a cardiac arrest is not enough time. what if you could buy just a bit more? what if you could slow the clock? coming up, what you need to know to save a life. >>> chris brooks is clinging to life. his desperate father trying to buy more time using a new kind of cpr. it's based on a new understanding between the space of life and death. before we pick up the story, there's someone else you should immediate. where are we now? >> the center for recessation in pennsylvania. >> this is dr. lance becker. >> when i trained it's like you are alive, you are dead. it's a sharp line. now we know it's nothing like that. it's a gradual process. that process mean

attended and notices sent out to all of park merced and the larger community and had a variety of beth the city hearings, the draft e.i.r. and informational hearings, and we have had informational hearings here as well or presentations here as well. so i think it's our perspective that we have don quite a bit of outreach and we documented that on our website, all the meetings and all the informational materials provided on the project's website, and then in regard to the rent control housing issue, we feel very strongly that the mechanism for doing this is a development agreement which is a contractual agreement between the city and developer that obligates us to preserve the rent controlled units and we promised to preserve the 3,221 rent controlled units that exist there now forever. half of those london breed replaced by the project and replaced by new rent controlled units. there's absolutely a way to do this. and it is also the same mechanism at the training plaza. >> and we appreciate the time. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> sue hester, i found the legal ad for this o

in newark, delaware beth parker, fox 5 news. >> i have to say the buggers don't move very fast. they just can't of stand there. >> they don't appear to be very smart either. they sit on the windshield while you're driving and you turn the wipers on and they sit there. they don't seem to be very smart. >> they deserve to die. that's not very easy for me to say. >> i don't know how many i've thrown out of my house. i just grab them and toss them out. >> boy, you're very brave. >> they can't do anything to you. they say when you kill them is when they stink. so until you kill them, they're just a bug, not really a stink bug. >>> something that doesn't stink. >> no. this is the greatest day ever. at 5:00 i sat down. there was a bunch of wine in front of me. tonight i sit down and look at that. laura said she would eat this one and that one. >> my girls have claimed those. >> the cupcakes are off limits. why do we have this? it's a greek festival. greek orthodox church of st. georgia 7701 bradley boulevard in bethesda. get out your google to figure out exactly where if you don't know

here is one from anna beth in dayton, ohio.tually good for your eyes or is that just a mom's tale? great question. carrots are rich in maintaining your strong eyesight but if your vision wasn't 20/20 to begin with, that won't help your vision improve. something happens in your eyes around age 50. people start to notice a decline in their eyesight. nearly 10 million americans experience something known as macular degeneration when the tissue surrounding the retina deteriorates and that causes a blurry spot in the middle of vision. experts have pinpointed certain foods rich in omega3's that could reduce inflammation in the eye and keep arteries and blood vessels healthy. the way to think about it, the same thing that protects the eye also protects your heart. when you think about your foods, you want to do both. a study out last year showed specifics. eating fish once a week, reduces your risk by 31%. other foods. nuts decrease by 35% and look at this one.

seven are looking at execution behind beth row.e of leaving these walls. unless you are one of the lucky players who play on the san quentin giants. >> it gives you a taste of freedom. >> matthew white grew up in dixon. serving five years for identity theft his new home is a 6x of prison cell. >> some of these guys will never see the outside life again. this is a dream come true for them because it really takes them back, you know, to the life outside. you know, this is their freedom right here. >> for a life it is their field of dreams. >> you know, i have always had a passion for the game. >> strike three. >> reporter: john taylor is that life. his tomorrow turf is south sacramento. taylor was 23 when he killed a rival gang member. now nine innings of hard ball helps dull the pain of doing hard time. >> it's rehabilitation as well. you know, you feel like you are part of a team. you have to up hold a certain standard for yourself, as well as for the prison. >> two down, guys, two down guys. >> reporter: today's opponent the fog a

lot of people go every week, i myself, my husband and i we go every week, every saturday we go to bethve been doing it for how many years. >> i think one of the great things it both supports people in their life outside and supports people in the choices that they make about building their life inside so for example the bay area jewish healing center provides services for those people on site even though on friday afternoons, even though folks also go on saturday mornings so that people have the full complement of observing or celebrating shabbat as they wish. >> the rabbis are so beloved by the residents. i hear it all the time. people have different favorites but i hear it all the time they are really lovely about the rabbis. it is nice to hear. >> we love being there and are so proud we were there. i really at the first shabbat i think when the first resident was there in the olive room we did shabbat. one first resident. >> really nice and in terms of what people do outside of the building, we have some body who goes to work every day. and so the gamut is pretty high people volunte

. >> business owner, beth thomas, hopes the workshop will help her with some unanswered questions. she has 40-acres of land she wants to turn into a vineyard. >> i have been taking classes at the university of california davis, getting ready to take my final classes. before i get involved in that last step, i decided i need to make a decision. yes or no. so today i feel that decision will be made when i'm done with this workshop. >> his dream is to have a winery of his own. he's well on his way, but looking for some specific advice. >> more about maintaining my vines and how to make better vines than what i'm doing now. >> one of the sessions includes a vineyard at one of perdue's local research farms. a hands on experience. >> we'll have an opportunity to walk through the vineyard and ask questions and see what we have done. see how different varieties perform here. >> at lunch, the group will sample wines each participant brought to share. they hope to learn about the business and have some fun at the same time. >> well one man's jack-o- lantern is another's meal. some elephants

if it is, economist beth ann bovina says the industrialized nations are not going to surrender any time soon. >> the world just came out of the worst recession since world war two. most economies are fighting to keep their recoveries alive and many of these economies have very, very weak domestic spending, the u.s. included. so those economies are trying to fight to keep those exports, basically keep the recovery because the domestic, consumers at home are not buying enough product to keep the growth growing. >> reporter: at this point, the currency imbalances have not reached extreme levels. still, experts warn if they do no nation will come out a winner. >> a worst case scenario is a global competitive devaluation of currencies which kind of harks back to the nineteen thirties where nations were engaged in a beggar thy neighbor type of behavior where competitive devaluation turned into trade wars. >> reporter: currency valuations were at the top of the agenda at the meeting of the international monetary fund earlier this month. and they are sure to be the talk of korea, when the g20 f

. >> beth: we just have 30 seconds left and i want to talk to you about alcoa stock t did rise in after-hours trading and it was alcoa stock was one of the best dow component performers for the month of september. but it is still a far way off from $40 a share from a few years ago. what has to happen for alcoa stock to get back up to that level? >> well, i think what people are seeing is we have used the downturn to restructure our cost base. we have cut a lot of costs out, become a very lean company and at the same time driven for further innovation and further growth. and that is all coming back. we currently have utilization in the mid to downstream of roughly 70%. once the economy comes back that comes in. we have the record performance in ouferb downstream 18% this quarter, with the utilization rate of roughly 70%. so you can get a good idea on what all the good things are there to happen almost automatically on top of it. i think we are very well-positioned to continue to use the opportunities that we will be facing very soon. >> susie: we will check with you again in a few months and s

the state of maryland fully funded its pension and healthcare benefits was in 2002, the same year beth steel plunged into interviews. since that time lawmakers have partially funded it and the losses in the stock market have created an even bigger shortfall. the incumbent controller says by differs firing the funds and bringing in new people to manage them the state has stopped the bleeding. but long term reforms will be necessary. >> you know it takes 11 miles for an aircraft carrier at sea when it's going along at a formal pace to stop. similarly these big financial programs are very complicated, they need to be reformed. this is no magic bullet and you can't do it overnight. >> reporter: while there's talk of possible reforms in the future greater employee contributions, extending the retirement age or converting to 401k plans union leader balk at the prospect of shifting on the burden on the back of state workers. >> quite frankly you maybe rash decisions you're going to have a whole slew of seniors going to be affected about it. there aren't enough greeter jobs at wal-mart to fix

elis liz beth cohen looks at study of showing benefits of starting school a little later. >> reporterit's 5:22 in the morning and 16-year-old renee from atlanta, georgia, is already getting up for school. his bus comes at 6:20 and the first bell rings at 7:25. doctors say teens need nine hours of sleep. renee doesn't get nearly that much. >> nine hours of sleep? i don't think that's possible for high schools you have to get up at five or six. that means you are going to be in bed by 8 or 9. >> reporter: experts say about 80% of high school students are sleep deprived. their biologically programmed to stay up late. >> there clearly is a shift in adolescence to a natural bedtime and wake time being two or three hours later than it was when they were say in elementary school. >> reporter: teens sleep experts wants high schools to consider starting later. she did a study at st. george's school in rhode island where they delayed school start too many by 30 minutes. the results were stunning. kid were much more alert. >> starting school later actually got kid to bed earlier. and we think th

here is one from anna beth in dayton, ohio.this -- are carrots actually good for your eyes or is that just a mom's tale? great question. there's something to keep in mind. carrots are rich in beta-carotene. that's what you got to remember. it helps maintain your strong eyesight, but if your eyes weren't 20/20 to begin with, eating carrots won't help correct your vision. something happens in your eyes especially around age 50. people start to notice a decline in their eyesight. in fact, nearly 10 million americans experience something known as mac collar degeneration, you're sort of looking at it here in this animation, when the tissue surrounding the retina deteriorates and that causes a blurry spot that people have smack dab sometimes in the center of their vision. interestingly, experts have pinpointed certain foods rich in omega3's that could reduce inflammation in the eye and keep arteries and blood vessels healthy. basically the way to think about it, the same thing that protects the eye also protects your heart. when you

what if she can, of course, we'll talk about that, as well and beth karas has the legal consequences.ting with you, the judge could have easily put her back in jail and handed down a stiffer penalty y. do you think she didn't? >> this was a misdemeanor. there is a lot discretion in a judge unlike felonies sometimes sentencing is mandatory. the judge clearly recognizes she's an acdikt and treatment is what she needs, in-patient treatment is what she needs, not to be out on promise she's going to do the right thing because she keeps relapsing. she needs behavior modification and doesn't happen in two or even four weeks. >> dr. samuels, what type of behavior modification would you recommend would be best for your case knowing what you know about her history? >> well, first of all, somebody that has multiple relapses, multiple treatment centers and the judge has said january 3rd. that gets her through the holidays. what's the significance behind, a, the january 3rd date and do you think that's enough? apparently you don't think so. >> first of all, i think it is great she be in treatment

finally, beth says shopping with a friend can really save you a lot of money. >> beth know what's she'supons and store sales, finding a buddy with your own neighborhood with similar tastes in terms ever palates, maybe a similar family, also have kids. you have kids. great to do exchanges, bartering, supplements all this by gardening and growing vegetables in her own garden and any abundant itsz items she has swapped with another neighbor for different vegetable. freezes the leftover, talking about maz mizing a month-to-month budget going in on items and sharing the cost of them, bulk items. >> beth is my hero. almost a pleasure to have you. >>> more on the website for you, earlyshow.cbsnews.com. >>> maggie, over to you. >> thank you, erica. >>> this morning, gloriously ghoulish ideas for halloween. all ideas cost less than $50 except one. this morning's splurge we'll show new a moment. here to show it all, life-style editor for the guilt group. >> thanks for having me. >> welcome back. you brought so many cool things beginning if you're having a halloween party you should send out these

beth dupree, medical director of the program at holy redeemer in pennsylvania. doctor, you heard the disagreement in the set-up story. what about women who have taken this? who are taking it? how about those who took it in large doses, perhaps? >> one of the problems is that if this is about perspective. we're talking about a medication that women were taking to treat symptoms of menopause. so you have to weigh the risks and benefits. how severe are the symptoms and really take a hard look at the data because this new study shows that they are not just low-grade cancers that are very easily treatable. the study shows women are dying at a higher frequency and those hormones probably played a role in that. so i think we have to shift perspective and say individualize the care and make sure women talk to their doctors to know what the risk is. >> always the best advice but, is it still, with all these stats in mind, a viable treatment for especially severe symptoms? >> it depends on what the symptoms are. that's where we have to get back to having a very good docto